This band's website loops Spotify songs to rack up payments for musicians

Eternify is a Spotify hack that wants its artists to earn their
"rightful" paychecks by allowing users to "stream their favorite
artists forever."

The website plays 30-second loops of
music from artists with a live counter at the bottom that shows
the amount of money the listener made for the artist. With each
half a minute loop, the user can earn $.005 for an artist.

It's a clever wrinkle to the
ongoing debate about musician compensation in the age of
streaming music, though it may violate Spotify's user guidelines.
Spotify's terms
and conditions prohibit "artificially increasing
play count or otherwise manipulating the Services by using a
script or other automated process".

Eternify is fueled by Ohm & Sport, a band whose
official website claims is "the world's first band in beta".
Their single, Air Tonight, is still available to stream on
Spotify as of now.

"We're launching Eternify in the wake of numerous false promises
of a better future for streaming: Not a single one of these
announcements or apparent victories have had any meaningful
impact on the vast number of small artists on whom these services
depend,”
said the band to The Verge.

Previous attempts to hack into Spotify's artist payout model led
the music streaming service to take action. Indie funk outfit
Vulfpeck released a silent album called "Sleepify" so that
the band could rack up money as its listeners went to sleep with
it streaming on Spotify. They wanted to fund free shows for their
upcoming tour. According to Billboard, Spotify decided to take
"Sleepify" down after contacting Vulfpeck a few times.

The crusade for artists against free music streaming has been
quite the saga. Taylor Swift
snubbed Apple Music last Friday, which led to the
company caving
in and offering to pay artists during its 3-month free trial
period. Last year, the "Bad Blood" singer removed
her latest album, "1989" from Spotify in protest of the way
it pays artists.

Spotify reached out with a statement regarding Eternify:
"We welcome any legitimate means to help artists get their
music discovered in Spotify and to be fairly compensated. With
this in mind, we're currently trying to contact Eternify to check
that their app follows Spotify's terms of use."